Sap Hunters

​Laurent Genefort was born in 1968 in the Paris region. At the age of 20, he became the youngest author of the Fleuve Noir Anticipation collection with Le Bagne des ténèbres. After studying literature at the Sorbonne, Laurent Genefort devoted himself entirely to writing and in 1995 won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Arago. He is best-known for the immersive universe that he developed around the space opera Omale. Published for the first time in 2001, the novel is the first in a series of works telling the destinies of three species cohabiting on the planet Omale: the humans, the Chiles and the Hodgqins. From 2008 to 2012, the writer directed the collection "Les Trésors de la SF" at Bragelonne. In 2017, he participated in the adaptation of his novel Les Peaux épaisses to the graphic novel medium: Thick Skins. ​

Alexandre "Lisandru" Ristorcelli was born in Corsica, France in 1972. After studying fine art in multiple institutions around the country he began a multifaceted career, working in animation while illustrating for web comics, fanzines and indie collectives. In 2003 he published a few pages in L'Écho des Savanes and contributed to animation storyboards (notably the last two seasons of Les mystérieuses cités d'or (The Mysterious Cities of Gold). In 2007, he illustrated and colored Le Foulard rouge, written by Jean-Louis Fonteneau. In the following years he produced Le redoutable escalator for Beaulet, La Trainée jaune de Comicswood, and La Trainée jaune c'est super!, a series that deals with the theme of superheroes with an offbeat humor. From 2014 to 2020 he produced short stories that were published in AAARG! and Freakshow Comics and drew for the publisher Petit à Petit's collectives. In 2021 he started the adaptation of Laurent Genefort's novel Les Chasseurs de sève (Sap Hunters) for Humanoids.